McGeever avoids jail for wasting Garda time

‘If I send him to prison, taxpayer will have to pay for his upkeep’

Former property developer Kevin McGeever has been given a suspended two-year sentence for wasting Garda time by making false reports about being kidnapped at gunpoint three years ago in a bid to dodge his creditors.

Mr McGeever, aged 71, with a former address at Nirvana, Ballywinna, Craughwell, Co Galway, and more recently in Clontarf, Dublin 3, entered the guilty plea moments before the trial was due to begin at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.